businesses that operate in russia. ceos from major american companies were planning to attend putin's economic forum in petersburg, but some are now bailing out. eamon javers has that story. >> reporter: this is one of those issues that makes you wonder what it means to be an american company, quote/unquote in this global economy. the petersburg economic forum is coming up, and secretary jack lew and valerie jarrett at the white house have been calling american ceos, and asking them not to attend that event, so who is going and who is not going? that's all been confirmed now from white house spokesman jay carney. here's carney yesterday addressing a question about whether or not the white house in fact requesting ceos not to attend. >> we don't think it's appropriate, given the flagrant violations of the sovereign nation's territorial integrity and the consistent effort to further destabilize ukraine, that it's the appropriate thing to do. >> let me run a list of who's going. we're seeing a lot of ceos peeling off. mic